New Library Books - Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Always looking up: the adventures of an incurable optimist / Michael J. Fox
Fox tells his story of battling Parkinson’s disease and how he has come to view obstacles as opportunities.

The assist : hoops, hope and the games of their lives / Neil Swidey
Jack O’Brien, basketball coach at Boston’s Charlestown High School, built a powerhouse program and a family for players, working to keep students focused on education rather than crime and drugs.

Clara’s war : one girls story of survival / Clara Kramer
The diary of a Polish-Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis for 20 months in an underground bunker.

K2 : life and death on the world’s most dangerous mountain / Ed Viesturs with David Roberts
The real-life adventures of six expeditions to the world’s second-tallest mountain, K2, in the Karakoram Range in northern Pakistan.

A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy / Thomas Buergenthal
Buergenthal grew up in a Polish ghetto and survived Auschwitz. He is now a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

No choirboy : murder, violence, and teenagers on death row / Susan Kuklin
Presents the stories of four young men who committed murder before they were 18 and the story of a victim’s family.

The sunflower : on the possibilities and limits of forgiveness / Simon Wiesenthal
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. The soldier wanted to confess to – and obtain absolution from – a Jew. Wiesenthal said nothing. After the war ended, Wiesenthal wondered if he had done the right thing. In this revised and expanded edition, fifth-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal’s dilemma. (paraphrased from the back cover; 12/4/2009)

The things they carried / Tim O’Brien
Fictional account of American soldiers’ experience in Vietnam.